new ship reveal 28thJan [Archive] - SUBSIM Radio Room Forums

Letum

01-28-10, 12:54 PM

Any other time and I would be singing the praises of ever screen about,
but a little of the magic has gone to say the least. :shifty:

FIREWALL

01-28-10, 12:58 PM

Thx tonyj :salute:

Just so I understand. I have to go to Ubi SHV site for latest News and features.

Or wait until it dribbles down to SubSim.

BulSoldier

01-28-10, 01:00 PM

The only problem i see (sorry if i sound picky) is that the waves look like scaled up versions of small waves, making the ship look like 1/90 model of the real thing.
Far worse is though what GoldenRivet is showing us though,it is terribly possible scenario.

kapitan_zur_see

01-28-10, 01:00 PM

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JGyMlGQKTSM/S2HOgDocqpI/AAAAAAAAAY0/QmBfzgArjjc/s1600/reconnect%2Bfunny.jpg

:rotfl2::rotfl2::yeah:

GoldenRivet

01-28-10, 01:00 PM

Glad you like Kapt!

Letum

01-28-10, 01:02 PM

Yup, that's genious GR. :D

kapitan_zur_see

01-28-10, 01:05 PM

loved it :haha:
permission to post it on ubi forum related thread, just for a bit of 5 min fun (before it gets censored...)? :rotfl2:

tonyj

01-28-10, 01:05 PM

:D ha, excellent!

ships look good though.

GoldenRivet

01-28-10, 01:05 PM

loved it :haha:
permission to post it on ubi forum related thread, just for a bit of 5 min fun (before it gets censored...)? :rotfl2:

you bet
:yeah:

BulSoldier

01-28-10, 01:11 PM

Beware they may acuse you of infiltration to the devs studio somewhere in the early hours of the day.Its quite possible to see it ingame :D

kapitan_zur_see

01-28-10, 01:13 PM

Done :D
Starting stopwatch... :arrgh!:

GoldenRivet

01-28-10, 01:14 PM

Done :D
Starting stopwatch... :arrgh!:

haha :D

johan_d

01-28-10, 01:21 PM

Jetzt geht loss!

floundericiousWA

01-28-10, 01:30 PM

you know what's great about this? it demonstrates why we should have such great expectations for UBI's online servers...I'm trying to look at the pictures of the Littoro battleship and the pictures won't load...period... :woot:

(edit: to be fair I think it's that the images are on photobucket and that's blocked by my admin)

fromhell

01-28-10, 01:30 PM

those pics look good:D

BulSoldier

01-28-10, 01:35 PM

you know what's great about this? it demonstrates why we should have such great expectations for UBI's online servers...I'm trying to look at the pictures of the Littoro battleship and the pictures won't load...period... :woot:

And isnt that the reasurance you need.Dont worry about your connection fails.UBI is always there for you, they will fail you before you know it. lol

bigboywooly

01-28-10, 01:44 PM

Not a bad looking ship at all

Though would like to see some merchants as these are bread and butter for a sub commmander if lucky will see a battlewagon once at sea

Still at one a week we at least get to see another 5 before release

Letum

01-28-10, 01:46 PM

will see a battlewagon once at sea if lucky

In the all-action laser gun fest that SH5 may be, you might find you
'dynamically' see quite a lot of battlewagons.

floundericiousWA

01-28-10, 01:49 PM

...and then you'll be able to KEEP looking at it as your computer repeatedly tries to reconnect with UBI

onelifecrisis

01-28-10, 01:52 PM

LOL @ GR

On topic:
Niiice shots. I've been wondering, seeing the latest shots, are those clouds volumetric? :hmmm: They look it! :D

Greyghost

01-28-10, 01:56 PM

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JGyMlGQKTSM/S2HOgDocqpI/AAAAAAAAAY0/QmBfzgArjjc/s1600/reconnect%2Bfunny.jpg

Nice one :D:D

GoldenRivet

01-28-10, 01:56 PM

yes i think they are volumetric

Letum

01-28-10, 01:58 PM

LOL @ GR

On topic:
Niiice shots. I've been wondering, seeing the latest shots, are those clouds volumetric? :hmmm: They look it! :D

I would be veeeery surprised if they where not particle based.
If your not going to be inside the cloud and there is no complex lighting going on, there is no good reason to have it truly volumetric.

BulSoldier

01-28-10, 01:59 PM

They do look like that.It would be nice to see aircraft plunging down on you from a cloud :)

Actually can anyone say few words about whats the diference between volumetric and particle based ?

Iron Budokan

01-28-10, 02:07 PM

I would rather see them addressing the concerns of the community

^^ This.

kapitan_zur_see

01-28-10, 02:13 PM

haha :D

love the next post right after your picture I've posted on the UBI forum (without any title or quote, just the single picture with no comments):

"??????????????????"

:har::haha:

He didn't even figured it out lol Seriously, the overall IQ here at subsim is SO way above most of ubi's forum members... no wonder they got some stupid Q&A and go in the arcadish directions sometimes!

Letum

01-28-10, 02:13 PM

They do look like that.It would be nice to see aircraft plunging down on you from a cloud :)

Actually can anyone say few words about whats the diference between volumetric and particle based ?

Volumetric atmosphere effects are spread equaly in the 3d space the
inhabit. They have no bitmapped textures and no geometries. Their
appearance is defined by colour and distribution alone.
They react to light well and take up lots of GPU time.

Particle based atmosphere effects use 2d or 3d geometry and clever
transparent textures. They react to light badly and can look off up close
or when moving through them, but can look better in cases where a
complex texture pattern is required.

martes86

01-28-10, 02:16 PM

GR, good one! :haha:

onelifecrisis

01-28-10, 02:17 PM

@Letum
Yeah, that's what I meant.

They do look like that.It would be nice to see aircraft plunging down on you from a cloud :)

Actually can anyone say few words about whats the diference between volumetric and particle based ?

A particle is flat, and is usually always turned to the camera. A volumetric particle, or "voxel", is a sphere and can be shaded as such, which looks better but runs slower.

Edit:
Yeah, what Letum said (cross posted). :lol:

kapitan_zur_see

01-28-10, 02:20 PM

Oh oh... Oopsy..!
@GoldenRivet (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=229874)

Looks like your picture at the UBI forum quite "disapeared" somehow into the twilight zone or something... Censorship maybe? :D
Woooow that's almost more than an hour online!
Call Guiness book! :03:

last minute: Even the "??????" answer and my following "oops... The new DRM messed up..." got deleted a brief time after, just so nobody is asking why there's a strange answer without apparent context eheh

Letum

01-28-10, 02:23 PM

A particle is flat, and is usually always turned to the camera.

Not always.
Quite oftern they use 3d geometry to avoid having to turn to camera.

BulSoldier

01-28-10, 02:25 PM

Thanks very much ive got the idea of it.If im not wrong the whole sky in sh3 was one big particle based sky.

Well im pretty happy with the graphics on sh5, no question there.

Letum

01-28-10, 02:30 PM

Thanks very much ive got the idea of it.If im not wrong the whole sky in sh3 was one big particle based sky.

Well im pretty happy with the graphics on sh5, no question there.

Not really.
So far as I can tell, SH3 has a sky dome and one or more cloud planes.

Very, very simple, but not utterly ineffective.

onelifecrisis

01-28-10, 02:32 PM

Not always.
Quite oftern they use 3d geometry to avoid having to turn to camera.

Oh, you nitpicker. If it's 3D then it's not a particle, it's a mesh! ;)

Safe-Keeper

01-28-10, 02:34 PM

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/2048/ubi2.jpgAs I said in another thread, with piracy being the way it is right now, complaining about anti-piracy measures is like complaining about having to take your shoes off before boarding a plane.
Your purchasing choices decide how long this policy continues.
Indeed.